Birmingham Hippodrome Performance Review 2015-16

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Relaxed Performance (2016)

Birmingham Hippodrome Patrons (2016)

Our vision is of a vibrant world-class Birmingham arts scene with the Hippodrome centre stage.

Heritage Open Day (2015)

Midlight (2015)

Open Art Surgery (2016)

Chinese New Year (2016) Minimum Monument (2014)

Hippodrome Heritage Project

Curtain Raiser (2016)

Summer in Southside (2015)

Whatever we do, across the business now or in the future, we always focus on our three brand values: • • •

EVERYONE’S WELCOME NOTHING BUT THE BEST DO IT WITH FLAIR Birmingham Weekender (2015) Maudits Sonnants at Birmingham Weekender (2015)

Schools Workshop (2015)

Relaxed Performance (2016)

2,241 Reasons to Remember (2015)

Curtain Raiser with Re:Bourne

Birmingham feels like a city where you can come and make a real difference.

I have been in Birmingham for almost a year and am loving the energy of the city. There is so much going on here, and such a rich cultural offer. It is a fantastic time to arrive at Birmingham Hippodrome – the outgoing Chief Executive, Stuart Griffiths, left the business in terrific shape, and my lucky job is to use that as a platform for the future.

Birmingham Hippodrome has an incredible reputation for the productions it is able to attract to the city. All the big producers including Cameron Mackintosh, Disney and The National Theatre position us as the key date on their tours. In 2015-16, highlights on our stage included Mary Poppins, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and of course, the hugely popular pantomime, Aladdin.

What is often less visible is the theatre’s work through Hippodrome CREATIVE. I have been taken aback by the depth and breadth of all that goes in to bringing to life spectacular outdoor events, such as Birmingham Weekender and Summer in Southside, as well as a varied range of learning and community projects.

In my previous roles at the Sydney Opera House, and since then in both Cardiff and Leicester, I have seen what a galvanising effect a cultural institution can have presenting performances that appeal to absolutely everyone, and in bringing a city together to celebrate shared live experiences. As Birmingham grows, I am keen to ensure that our extraordinary

Fiona Allan Artistic Director & Chief Executive, Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre Trust Ltd

wealth of cultural and creative enterprise is promoted front and centre, to reinforce the city’s attractiveness and international appeal.

As one of the most successful and popular theatres in the world, Birmingham Hippodrome is perfectly placed, with its numerous creative and corporate partners, to expand its reach, deepen engagement and make a big difference to people’s lives. I want to see the Hippodrome using its expertise to bring unique events to Birmingham and to grow an audience that is truly reflective of the city – young, dynamic and diverse.

I am very grateful to the Hippodrome Theatre Trust, to our Development Trust, and to the whole Hippodrome team for making me so welcome in my new city and organisation, and especially to our Chair John Crabtree for all his advice and support over the past year. I look forward to working with colleagues across the industry and to meeting even more of our audience, both loyal patrons and our many thousands of newcomers.

Front cover: 2,241 Reasons to Remember, Summer in Southside, The Nutcracker, Mary Poppins, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Marriage of Figaro, Birmingham Weekender, Aladdin and Sylvie Guillem Life in Progress.

Change is inevitable, and often exciting and invigorating.

2015/16 has seen a considerable amount of change across the city, within the arts world, and right here at Birmingham Hippodrome.

After more than 12 years at the helm as Chief Executive, Stuart Griffiths’ departure and the subsequent arrival of our new Artistic Director and Chief Executive, Fiona Allan, has been the most fundamental change for us in this period.

Fiona’s arrival, as we launched our new branding following a deep-rooted review, has dovetailed perfectly, ensuring clarity of our vision, aims and values. With tremendous experience from Sydney Opera House and Wales Millennium Centre, and following a successful turn-around of Leicester’s Curve theatre, Fiona inherits a solid financial legacy, an expanding level of community engagement, and a team committed to delivering nothing but the best.

I know that Fiona shares the board’s ambition to achieve our vision of a world-class Birmingham arts scene with the Hippodrome centre stage. There is work to be done in widening our relevance to ensure that everyone is truly welcome here, but we have never been in such a strong position to do just that.

“I am so proud of the Hippodrome’s commitment to enabling significant moments of civic celebration.”

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Birmingham Weekender

The Nutcracker

We’re rightly proud of the broad range of programming we have once again presented on our stage, maintaining our claim to be the UK’s most popular and busiest single theatre. We are indebted to our many producer partners who repeatedly place their trust in us. Of particular note, we must congratulate Birmingham Royal Ballet on their 25th Anniversary in the city which was celebrated with another triumphant Christmas run of Sir Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker. BRB have also been through considerable change this year as we said farewell to Chief Executive Chris Barron after 10 years and welcomed Jan Teo in his stead. At Welsh National Opera too, the new appointment of Leonora Thomson, following Peter Bellingham as Managing Director, has inspired a refreshed dialogue which will be further spurred by WNO’s 70th birthday celebrations next year.

There is no doubting that times are tough for our subsidised friends and we are determined to do all we can from our position of relative strength to support them. The new Culture Central organisation (formalising the former Birmingham Arts Partnership) stands poised to forge a new era of cultural engagement.

With new colleagues driving our Hippodrome CREATIVE activity, the year delivered another hugely successful Summer in Southside bringing flair to our local district. We also welcomed the opportunity to produce Birmingham Weekender in September for an estimated audience of 150,000 in collaboration with the revived New Street Station, Grand Central and John Lewis, and the Rugby World Cup.

Summer in Southside

Balancing our commercial head with our charitable heart, it was another good year for earnings with positive results across our catering and events offer.

We took the opportunity to rationalise our StageSide and Creative Shift operations, and developed a longer-term plan to grow Business Development and consultancy.

We continued to receive generous support from our many corporate and individual donors, and from grant-making Trusts. CBRE’s Martin Guest became the new Chair of our Development Trust succeeding PwC’s Mark Smith. Mark’s dedication and enthusiasm in his six years as Chair has been as inspirational as it has been effective, not least of all during our 2012 Stage Appeal, and I know all our Trustees will join me in thanking him for his valuable contribution. I also want to thank Bridget Blow for her nine years as a Trustee.

So whilst all around has changed, one thing remains at the core, and that is my huge admiration for all the Hippodrome staff. I’m proud to say that everyone at Birmingham Hippodrome has embraced new challenges and opportunities working closely with a wide range of stakeholders and partners, old friends and new, to find new routes, articulate new ambitions, and build new foundations for future growth.

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The Nutcracker

Barnum Annie

Afternoon Tea in the Circle

The Bodyguard

The Barber of Seville

Dirty Dancing

Alan Carr

Romeo & Juliet

Sweeney Todd

Circle Restaurant Mary Poppins

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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Shrek The Musical

Sylvie Guillem

Circle Restaurant

Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty

Aladdin

Oklahoma!

The Last Tango

Jesus Christ Superstar

The Marriage of Figaro

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A Stage for the Best in the World Musicals 56%

395 performances 526,389 tickets (76% of capacity) Total ticket sales: £18,785,506

Tickets Sold Other 7%

Ballet 14%

Opera 2%

Drama 3%

Musicals

Pantomime

Comedy/Variety

Highlights included the first visit of Shrek followed by the return of Dirty Dancing.

We welcomed two classics, Oklahoma from Music & Lyrics with Gary Wilmot, and Cameron Mackintosh’s Barnum starring Brian Conley.

Michael Harrison and Qdos Pantomimes delivered a massively popular and successful result as Aladdin broke nearly all previous records with the best attendance since 2002.

Alan Carr, Dara O Briain and Adam Hills - all household comedy names with big fan-bases. Once again, we welcomed Britain’s Got Talent for a busy week attracting many new attenders and valuable national TV exposure.

The Bodyguard musical starring Alexandra Burke was hugely popular and the autumn period featured Annie starring Craig Revel Horwood and Jesus Christ Superstar.

To finish the financial year, the wind changed and blew Mary Poppins back to our stage, a hugely popular production from Cameron Mackintosh and Disney attracting large numbers of newcomers.

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Panto 18%

The inspired combination of Wet Wet Wet’s Marti Pellow (his first move into Panto), the master of the doubleentendre Julian Clary, musicals favourite Lee Mead, comedian Matt Slack (back for his third consecutive panto with us and soldiering on despite considerable throat problems) and panto dame Andy Ryan made for a memorable and effective show appealing to a wide range of family audiences.

The Bodyguard

Drama The welcome return of the National Theatre for two weeks of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was a truly fantastic theatrical experience.

In our Patrick Centre studio, we presented Leicester Curve’s 20th Anniversary production of Jonathan Harvey’s groundbreaking play Beautiful Thing which sold extremely well and received great reviews.

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Depreciation Depreciation 4% Technical Technical 4% Services Services 6% 6% Salaries &Salaries Wages & Wages 9% 9% Other Other 11% Expenditure 11% Expenditure ProductionProducti Costs Costs 58% 58% Catering &Catering & Ancillary Ancillary 12% 12%

Catering &Catering & Ancillary Ancillary 14% 14% Other 8%

Ballet

Dance

Opera

Birmingham Royal Ballet celebrated their 25th season resident here at Birmingham Hippodrome since coming up from Sadler’s Wells in 1990.

Global sensation Sylvie Guillem retired from the stage with a final poignant and assured sell-out in September.

The summer period of 2015 saw more great performances of The Magic Flute from Welsh National Opera plus a new Peter Pan.

Carmina Burana, the Variations triple and a double bill of Ashton works were complemented by performances of the classics Sylvia, Swan Lake, their best-selling Romeo & Juliet with another popular Christmas season of Sir Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker.

In a completely different style, popular tango artists and Strictly Come Dancing favourites Vincent & Flavia also brought us their farewell tour.

WNO also brought us a blood-curdling production of the Sondheim classic Sweeney Todd and in the spring delivered new productions of both The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville alongside a completely new work Figaro Gets a Divorce.

Other highlights included Les Ballets Trockaderos de Monte Carlo and the return of Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty guaranteeing large audiences.

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CREATIVE Programming “Birmingham Weekender... reinforced the city as a must-visit destination. The Hippodrome team played a pivotal part in delivering this success.”

Jonathan Cheetham, Chair of Retail BID and General Manager, Grand Central Birmingham In August, Summer in Southside attracted audiences in excess of 13,000, and presented a free programme of live street theatre, comedy, dance, puppetry, visual arts and music taking over the Southside district.

It included the Colour of Hip Hop, communityfocused dance performances for local families with 24 workshops in local libraries.

Birmingham Weekender produced by Birmingham Hippodrome on behalf of Birmingham Arts Partnership, was perhaps the biggest arts festival in the city’s recent history celebrating the re-opening of New Street Station, the new Grand Central shopping centre and the city’s hosting of several Rugby World Cup games.

In September, an estimated audience of over 150,000 people watched or participated in Birmingham Weekender events and activities across the city.

The festival brought the city to life with great art and culture in city squares, markets, museums and retail spaces. Birmingham Hippodrome presented the free outdoor spectacular Maudits Sonnants by French company Transe Expresse in Centenary Square.

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In November, we commemorated local residents who lost their lives during the Blitz with 2,241 Reasons To Remember – The Birmingham Blitz.

We commissioned British-Chinese artist Aowen Jin to produce an inspiring, outdoor, light-based installation Midlight in December. Audiences were invited to move through a field of sparkling optical fibres that changed colour in response to sound or as instructed through tweets.

We were also commissioned by the Chinese New Year Festival to coordinate the hugely successful Chinese New Year event in Southside, which attracted audiences estimated at over 15,000.

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Audience Audience c.150,000 of of c.150,000

“Very high quality performances and activities.

Plenty to see and do - a whole day’s worth.”

Audience Member from Summer in Southside

“With my heart in my mouth and sweating palms, I was transported to a childlike state of fear, wonder and charm.”

Audience Member for Maudits Sonnants at Birmingham Weekender Summer Summer in in Colour of Hip Hop: Colour of Hip Hop:

Summer Summer in in Southside: Southside: audience audience of of c.13,000 c.13,000

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2,241 Reasons 2,241 Reasons to Remember: to Remember: 2,000 people 2,000 people over 3 nights over 3 nights

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Everyone’s Welcome

Everyone is welcome at Birmingham Hippodrome and we do all we can to encourage people to experience live performances.

In addition to ticket discounts, we promote a programme of workshops, talks, residencies and performances, offering both young people and adults pathways to engage creatively.

Our Creative Learning team works with numerous participant groups including children and young people with learning disabilities, vulnerable and looked-after children, universities and colleges, older people, primary and secondary schools and others. This is funded by a mix of Birmingham

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Hippodrome’s own resources, by grants from Trusts, with support from local businesses, and with funds from external bodies such as Birmingham City Council, specialist education and arts agencies such as Arts Connect West Midlands, and donations from individuals.

Curtain Raiser with Re:Bourne

Continuing our successful relationship with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures and their education arm Re:Bourne, we created our 8th Curtain Raiser, a five minute performance prior to the main production of Sleeping Beauty. The Beauties Awake was performed by 20 young people aged 13–18 and choreographed by young dancers aged 18–21; the students delivered one of the most creative and technically challenging

pieces to date. This year Starbank Primary School created a flash mob of Little Beauties before the Saturday matinee.

With generous funding from The Patrick Trust and Property for Kids, 60 Young Carers aged 6–17 attended Easter and Summer Schools when the young people wrote their own anthem with a professional songwriter, musician and film-maker.

“I enjoyed working as a team and creating something magical.”

Participant in Young Carers Summer school

16% of tickets (c.85,000)

discounted for school groups and young people, and for patrons with access needs

“I’ve witnessed the students develop and grow during this process and they’ve clearly enjoyed every minute.”

Teacher from Hallmoor School

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Everyone’s Welcome

Birmingham Hippodrome's Access Forum meets quarterly to discuss and improve the experience that every patron receives.

Our Creative Learning team has been working with Deafblind adults from Sense for over two years.

The group performed at the opening of the fundraising launch for a new SENSE headquarters in Selly Oak attended by HRH Princess Anne.

Funded by Birmingham City Council’s Next Generation and inspired by Gogol’s novel The Nose, 50 Young People with Learning Disabilities aged 9 to 19 were involved in creating a unique film screened at The Electric Cinema. Working with a team of professional practitioners, they learnt animation and acting. 10 of the young people involved successfully obtained Bronze Arts Awards.

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We have continued to support One of a Kind, a theatre company for young people with learning disabilities established with Open Theatre Company. The young people meet regularly at the Hippodrome and are fast becoming familiar faces in the theatre.

We held our third Symposium in partnership with Open Theatre Company entitled Creating IMPACT; Measuring IMPACT. We also hosted the follow-up conference Is That All There Is? attracting over 150 delegates.

Work in the local community throughout 2015/16 has developed deeper relationships with community groups through the Arts Champions project in the Hodge Hill District.

We held our third Relaxed Performance at Aladdin in January 2016 for over 1,300 children, young people and vulnerable adults with learning disabilities, an increase of 15% on 2015.

“It was lovely to see parents, children, and siblings alike joining in with singing, juggling, and so many other creative activities.”

Sarah Jasper, Acorns

OH YES IT IS!

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Children and The Arts supported the third OperaQuest and DanceQuest projects.

In its fourth successful year, DanceQuest saw performance for 120 pupils from four secondary schools attend over 1,300 patrons two dance productions from Matthew Bourne and OperaQuest saw 120 year 5 students (9/10 year Les Ballets Trockaderos de Monte Carlo. olds) including some from The Pines Special Participants created their own dance pieces School using WNO’s The Magic Flute as inspiration, and a very exciting film. working with former Conservatoire Students and OH YES IT IS!A new initiative, HospiceQuest enabled us to work a professional musician. with children with life-limiting illnesses and their

families around the circus theme of Barnum, with 3rd relaxed 239 patrons Acorns performance forHospice as our partner. attended over 1,300 patrons touch tours

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OH YES IT IS!

3rd relaxed performance for over 1,300 patrons

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239 patrons attended touch tours

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786 patrons attended 39 assisted performances

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Going Green Birmingham Hippodrome is committed to minimising its impact on the environment and has taken significant steps in recent years to reduce its energy consumption and improve waste management.

In 2010, we were the first UK theatre to be registered to ISO14001, an international standard for Environmental Management Systems.

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Thank you to our current business supporters Development Partners

Performance Partners

Associate Partners

Good Company Club Benussi & Co • Clarendon Care Limited • The Edgbaston • Lorica Insurance Brokers • Professional Polishing Services Ltd Schofield and Associates • Squire Patton Boggs • Shaylor Group

Hippodrome Leading Ladies Audley Retirement • AVA Events Styling • Vivienne Bailey Photography • Suzanne Barnes Design Partnership Barques PR • Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust • Bridge Street Global Hospitality Calthorpe Estates • CRB Consulting Rooms • Cure Leukaemia • Digital Media & Videogames Consultant Elaine Elkington & Associates Ltd • FLR Group • Holiday Inn • HSBC • Hygenie Ltd • Mailbox Midlands Today Presenter • MPW Steakhouse Bar & Grill • Park Regis Birmingham • Style Our Home Sponsored by

Hippodrome CREATIVE Partners One of a kind

Welcome to our World, Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School

In association with

Hippodrome Heritage

Young Carers

Print Partner

Assisted Performances

Relaxed Performance

Summer in Southside

Curtain Raiser 2016

Project Partners

Commercial Partners Las Iguanas • Artifax Software Ltd. • Christie & Co • Cross Country Trains • BDO LLP Birmingham • Faithful + Gould Babcock International • SLC Rail • Hoare Lea & Partners • Colliers International • United Airlines • CastAlum Ltd. Rees Bradley Hepburn • Willis Towers Watson PLC • University of Birmingham • Aon • Jordans Solicitors

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Thank you to all our current donors, Trusts, Foundations and Public Funders. Without you, Hippodrome CREATIVE would not be possible.

CREATIVE

Major Gifts Peter Tod • Mrs A Cole • Mrs T Justham • Anonymous Donors

Hippodrome Circle Patrons from £3,000+ Matthew Hammond • Mark Hopton • Maureen & Roy Kirby • Chris & Jane Loughran

Headline Act Patrons from £1,400 Teresa A Cook • Joseph Devlin • The Dickens Foundation • Dr & Mrs Harrison • Emma & Peter Neads • Mark & Amanda Smith Janette Rutter • Simon & Kath Winner

Leading Role Patrons from £700 Mrs Jayne Cadbury • Jim & Birdie Ceaser • John & Heather Clemson • Roger & Jennifer Cox • Sara & Tim Fowler • Averil Green Claire & Mark Hales • Andy & Rebecca Hammond • Mr William Jones • Steve & Laura Kearney • Debbie & Mark Lilburne Michael & Cerys Luckman • Jeremy & Harjinder Millington • Tony & Julie Phillips • Paul Twose • Stephen & Suzanne Whittern David & Janine Young

Supporting Cast Patrons from £250 Christine Bachelor • Sheila Ballantyne-Smith • Simon Bashford • Bridget Blow • Simon & Amanda Boardman-Weston Richard Burke • Andrew & Sarah Connors • Adrian Cox • John & Diana Crabtree • Eileen Doyle • Patricia Edwards Patricia & Ronald Etchells • Nicola Fleet-Milne • Mark Forty • Neil & Jackie Frettsome • Roger & Jennifer Gould Jill & Jeremy Griffin • Martin & Roni Guest • Ivan Heard • Dorothy Hobson • John Jeremy & Pamela Buckley Rodney & Alyson Kettel • Martin & Joanne King • Andy Le Marr • Lynne Myers • Nathalie Neill • Ralph & Linden Osborn Win Palmer & Lola Ralph • Mrs Jill Parker • John & Jill Queenan • Claire Ralley • Dr & Mrs Reynolds • Don & Diane Scriven Mary Shaw • Mr George F Sidaway • Rebecca Simkiss & Richard Guy • Dr N & Mrs C Speak • Christine Spittle Gwen Stephens • Glynis Troth • Gillian Tune • Richard & Maggie Waller • Ray & Marilyn Way • Neil & Polly Wilson Jane Woolrich

Name a Seat Donors Rosemarie Bathgate • Chris Boddington • Paul Callas • Eileen Corkindale • Mark Cottam • John Fendek • Andrew Hammond Lynne Hardy & Jaide’s Stage Studios • Michael Herritty • Jennifer Holford • Jennifer Jarvis • John McDonald • Mrs L Osborne Melody Starkey • Gwen Stephens • Glynis Troth

Trusts & Foundations Aurelius Charitable Trust • Birmingham Bodenham Trust • Birmingham Common Good Trust Bishop of Birmingham Charitable Trust • The Thousandth Man – Richard Burns Charitable Trust • William A Cadbury Trust Children and the Arts • George Henry Collins Trust • Baron Davenport’s Charity • The Dumbreck Charity The Eveson Charitable Trust • The George Fentham Trust • Marc Fitch Fund • The Grimmitt Trust The Joseph Hopkins Charity • Limoges Charitable Trust • The Mackintosh Foundation • The Norton Foundation Oakley Charitable Trust • The Patrick Trust • Penny Trust • The Rowlands Trust • Henry James Sayer Charity The Saintbury Trust • Sutton Coldfield Charitable Trust • Edwin John Thompson Memorial Fund Roger and Douglas Turner Charitable Trust • GJW Turner Trust • The WED Charitable Trust • Alan Woodfield Trust The Grantham Yorke Trust

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CHAIR: John Crabtree OBE DIRECTORS: Rod Dungate, Martin Guest Andy Hogarth, Glenn Howells, Michael Laverty, Prof. David Roberts, Gary Rowe, Mark Smith, Ann Tonks, Cllr. Anne Underwood, Rt. Rev David Urquhart SPECIAL ADVISER: Digby, Lord Jones of Birmingham Kt BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME THEATRE DEVELOPMENT TRUST CHAIR: Martin Guest TRUSTEES: Simon Boardman-Weston, Steve Clarke, John Crabtree OBE, John Driver, Nicola Fleet-Milne, Andrew Hammond, Matthew Hansell, Dr Mahnaz Hashmi, Jayne Herritty, Martin King, Michael Luckman, Joanne Malin, Ruth Pipkin, Claire Ralley SENIOR MANAGEMENT

CHEFS DE PARTIE: Nicholas Grime (Oct 2015-Jan 2016), Paul Harris (Until Jun 2015), Scott Hart, Marion Wint COMMIS CHEFS: Martyn Anderson (Oct 2015-Jan 2016), Sadie James, Jermaine Johnson (Until Aug 2015), Munashe Muchenje (Until Aug 2015) STAGESIDE CHEF: Lee Highcock (Until Oct 2015) STAGESIDE MANAGER: Ann Jeffers (Until Mar 2016) CATERING & EVENTS COORDINATORS: Lucia De la Fuente (Until Nov 2015), Kelly Smith (Until Jul 2015) CATERING SUPERVISORS: Steven Rivers, Luke Brown CATERING SERVICES ASSISTANTS: Sarah Allington, Terrianne Buffong, Larna Davis (Until May 2015), Jaime Downey, Emily Lloyd, Austin Price (Until Nov 2015) EVENTS SUPERVISOR: Christina Helbling-Gilmore EVENTS COORDINATOR: Charles Pette EVENTS ASSISTANT: Hannah Still GREEN ROOM MANAGER: Laura Still GREEN ROOM ASSISTANTS: Sarah Theaker, Will McGuire

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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & CHIEF EXECUTIVE: Fiona Allan CHIEF EXECUTIVE: Stuart Griffiths (until Jul 2015) DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & RESOURCES: Helen Bates DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT: Rob Macpherson DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS: Mike Bradford DIRECTOR OF CREATIVE PROGRAMMES: Graham Callister DIRECTOR OF ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Helga Henry DIRECTOR OF HOSPITALITY & SERVICE: Gary Aymes (Until Dec 2015) CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S DEPARTMENT EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT: Kate Warnaby THEATRE ADMINISTRATOR: Rich Mason SECURITY/RECEPTION STAGE DOOR COORDINATOR: Tom Phipps STAGE DOOR SUPERVISOR: Brian Taylor THORP STREET RECEPTIONIST: Carol Crathorne STAGE DOOR ASSISTANTS: Julie Carey, Victoria Clapham, (Until Dec 2015) Katie Goldhawk, Alyce Leivers, Kerrie Slevin FINANCE & RESOURCES HEAD OF FINANCE: Kenny Lock MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS: Diana Nickless, Rebecca Poulton (Until Feb 2016) FINANCE OFFICERS: Sue Burden (Until Jul 2015), Mohammed Nadim, Sarah Wilkinson PAYROLL OFFICER: Brian Tonks HEAD OF HR: Glen Ivison ASSISTANT TO SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM: Grace Morgan ADMINISTRATION ASSISTANT: Sarah Boran (Until Mar 2016) VISITOR SERVICES HEAD OF VISITOR SERVICES: Jonathan Thompson SENIOR VISITOR SERVICES MANAGER: Jenny Wood VISITOR SERVICES MANAGER: Amy Philpott (Maternity) TEMPORARY VISITOR SERVICES MANAGER: Ryan Mason CASH OFFICE SUPERVISOR: David Hartland VISITOR SERVICES TEAM LEADERS: Mark Brooks, Francesca Charlton FRONT OF HOUSE SUPERVISORS: Craig Smith, Rachid Choukoukou SENIOR VISITOR SERVICES ASSISTANTS: Rebecca Challoner (Until Mar 2016), Alex Thacker VISITOR SERVICES ASSISTANTS: Rebecca Challoner, Adam Dicken, Elizabeth Hope, Aimee Matthews, Kirsty McTighe, Ruth White, Matthew Williams, Charmaine Worth APPRENTICE: Adam Dicken, Thomas Moran (Until Mar 2016) CATERING & EVENTS HEAD OF CATERING & EVENTS: Neil Satchwell RESTAURANT MANAGERS: Tejal Mistry, Emma Reddish RESTAURANT TEAM LEADER: Emily Lloyd STOCK MANAGER: Philip Quinn STOCK CONTROLLER: Mark Hopkin (Until Aug 2015) HEAD CHEFS: Christopher Bratt-Rose (Until Aug 2015), Stephen Christopher, Paul Soczowka (Sep 2015-Feb 2016) SOUS CHEFS: Chin Fai Chan (Oct 2015-Mar 2016), Greg Collins (Until Aug 2015), Melissa Menns

HEAD OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: Judith Greenburgh BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE: Ros Wilson FUNDRAISING FUNDRAISING MANAGER: Rachael Magson FUNDRAISING OFFICER: Rosie Milsom MARKETING HEAD OF MARKETING & SALES: Chilina Madon MARKETING EXECUTIVE (PRODUCTIONS): Jacky Barron MARKETING EXECUTIVE (PROJECTS): Rachel Williams MARKETING OFFICER: Chris Cooper MEDIA & PR MANAGER: Mandy Rose MEDIA & PR OFFICER: Amy Haycock PRESS & MARKETING ASSISTANT: Emma Williams (Until Apr 2015) TEMPORARY MARKETING ASSISTANT: Lucy Bishop (Until Aug 2015) INFORMATION & SALES 0844 338 5000 INFORMATION & SALES MANAGER: Donna Scott DEPUTY INFORMATION & SALES MANAGER: Robert Taylor INFORMATION & SALES SUPERVISORS: Marina Gilmore, Debbie Sangha, Ryan Allen, Ryan Spencer INFORMATION & SALES ASSISTANTS: Deborah Bradley, Sandra Daniels, Charlotte Dunn (Until Sep 2015), Lauren Prosser, Amy Wells, Richard Wood GROUP SALES ASSISTANT: Audrey Guest CREATIVE PROGRAMMES STRATEGIC PROJECTS MANAGER: Caroline Davis CREATIVE PROGRAMMES MANAGER: Sarah Allen (Until May 2015) CREATIVE PROGRAMMES ASSISTANT: Zara Harris CREATIVE LEARNING HEAD OF CREATIVE LEARNING: Andy Reeves CREATIVE LEARNING MANAGER: Liz Leck CREATIVE LEARNING OFFICER: Rachel Smith (Maternity) TECHNICAL SERVICES HEAD OF TECHNICAL SERVICES: Barry Hope FACILITIES MANAGER: Mike Croke FACILITIES SUPERVISOR: Kevin Bow IT MANAGER: Stephen O’Hare IT ANALYSTS: Sam Magson, Richard Tye (Until Oct 2015) IT POLICY & COMPLIANCE COORDINATOR: Michael O’Dwyer BUSINESS SYSTEMS MANAGER: Scott Whitehouse SQL ANALYST: Justin Smith (Until Jul 2015) TEMPORARY BUSINESS SYSTEMS MANAGER: Sarah Stratton PRODUCTION MANAGER: Thomas Reilly TECHNICAL COORDINATOR: Paul Keogh SENIOR TECHNICIANS: Paul Hinde, Martin Pickard DEPUTY SENIOR TECHNICIANS: Marc Keogh, Ian Wallace TECHNICIANS: Alex Duggan, James Gratrix, Bryan Moore, Eleanor Morgan, Neil Hateley (Until Nov 15), Charlotte Perry, Frank Spencer, Jonathan Thornhill, Jim Worrall (Until Oct 2015) MAINTENANCE ASSISTANTS: Kevin Green, Daniel Jenions (Until Aug 2015), William Townend TECHNICAL PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Faith Whenham

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